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Sales of Blu-ray Disc and DVD movies remain the largest source of revenue for the movie industry, accounting for 61% of home video spending on movies (excluding Netflix and other s... More

Broadpeak’s nanoCDN solution will be launched commercially early this year, giving telcos and cable operators the opportunity to reduce bandwidth consumption and simultaneously i... More

We’re in the age of billions of video clips on YouTube and other sites, and it’s overwhelming. Want to find a video of the protests in Syria? There were more than 350,000 uploa... More

The quirky little start-up that once printed money by mailing you DVDs is hell-bent on morphing into the HBO—and the network, and the any-show, any-time streaming service—of to... More

Super Bowl sponsors are touting a new rationale for the record $4 million they’re spending on some 30-second spots this year: that viewers of the most-watched U.S. TV event will ... More

Researchers have uncovered three sets of serious security flaws in the protocol for a component that allows computers and other devices to easily connect and communicate on a netwo... More

Super Bowl XLVII will be streamed live in Canada, CTV has confirmed. This Sunday’s NFL championship match will be available online, free of charge, at ctv.ca. The game’s nation... More

A new chapter in online video is about to begin. YouTube is prepping to launch paid subscriptions for individual channels on its video platform in its latest attempt to lure conten... More

Although it’s currently not cost effective for television channels with large numbers of viewers to move to OTT-only video delivery, for many individual channels that have small-... More

Time Warner Cable and DigitalSmiths, the Durham based video discovery company, have partnered to integrate the DigitalSmiths Seamless Discovery platform to provide better search an... More

As TV networks look for more ways to keep viewers from switching channels, they're looking to their talent to embrace the second screen and chat with fans. ConnecTV, the Silicon Va... More

There’s not a lot of common ground between digital media and television, but huge live events—especially the Super Bowl—are just as important for both media because they guar... More

For millions of U.S. consumers, one screen in the living room is not enough. A new study from KPMG finds that 60% of American television viewers are devoted multitaskers, watching ... More

As CD and download sales cool, the music industry is looking to subscription services like Spotify, Rhapsody and Deezer to provide an attractive alternative to pirated content. But... More

It’s a relentless drumbeat: the TV industry is dead. It’s just like the music industry. 20somethings are avoiding the cord. I want HBO a la carte. YouTube will kill cable. The ... More

To see how much Twitter has grown in the past four years, just look at the 2013 Inauguration Day numbers below compared to 2009. In a little over one hour, there were 1.1 million t... More

As part of its expanding relationship with FOX Sports Media Group, iPowow, the Participation TV specialists, now offers SPEED viewers in-race LIVE voting as part of network coverag... More

KartinaTV, an OTT broadcaster for Russian-speaking audience outside of Russia, is collaborating with Comigo, the creator of a smart TV platform. Under the agreement, Comigo will pr... More

German commercial broadcaster Sat.1 is to employ an interactive application, Sat.1 Connect, on selected programmes to enable viewers to follow and comment on programmes while they ... More